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Speaker | Year | Topic Area | Lecture Title | ||||
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(No name) | 2017 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Connect with maths (talk and workshops for school age) | ||||
Adams, Carol | 2014 | Business | Responsibility in Business | ||||
Afshar, Haleh | 2005 | Religion,Islam | Women's Rights and Islam-Can things change? | ||||
Aitken, Jonathan | 2016 | Politics, Religion | Reforming our Prisons-Purposes and Practicalities | ||||
Angiolini, Elish | 2008 | Law | Scots Law' What's Special about us? | ||||
Ansari, Ali | 2015 | Modern History | Iran and the British Question | ||||
Archer, Janet | 2015 | Arts Admin | Unlocking Potential, Embracing Ambition | ||||
Armstrong, Karen | 2013 | Religion, Philosophy | Compassion | ||||
Ashcroft, Brain | 2005 | Economics | New Wealth for an old Nation? | ||||
Atiyah, Michael | 2005 | Mathematics | Einstein and the Nature of Space | ||||
Barker, John | 2018 | Physics and Astronomy | The Exploration of Space: the Austerity Years | ||||
Barker, John | 2010 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | The smile on the face of the Quantum | ||||
Barker, John | 2016 | Members' Talks | Through the Webbit Hole: a Guide to royalphil.org | ||||
Barr, Leslie | 2002 | The RPSG | The Society and Nobel Laureates | ||||
Barrow, John | 1999 | Physics, Cosmology | Life in the Universe | ||||
Black, James | 2002 | Pharmacology | A Brief History of Drug Invention | ||||
Black, Sue | 2009 | Forensic Anthropology | Forensic Anthropology in the Modern World | ||||
Blackburn, Simon. | 2004 | Philosophy | Fictions, Inventions and Ethics | ||||
Blakemore, Colin | 2013 | Neuroscience | Vision Impossible | ||||
Bond, Michael | 2005 | Psychiatry | Forty Years in Pain | ||||
Bone,Ian | 2013 | Neurology | Charles Dickens and the Art of Medical Observation | ||||
Boulton, Geoffrey | 2007 | Geology | What is happening to Planet Earth? | ||||
Bown, Lalage | 2008 | Education/Feminism | Women, Words and the World | ||||
Brindley, Lynne | 2010 | Librarianship | The Role of National Libraries in the 21st Century | ||||
Broadie, Alexander | 2013/2017 | Philosophy | David Hume/Public Intellectuals | ||||
Brown, Callum | 2001 | Scottish Church History | The Death of European Christian Culture | ||||
Bruford, Mike | 2019 | Genetics/ Biodiversity | Why Genetic Biodiversity matters | ||||
Bruzzi, Stella | 2017 | Film | The Law in Media Entertainment | ||||
Burdon, Roy | 2010 | Visual Arts | Culture Fusion: Arts/Science/Arts | ||||
Burland, John | 2004 | Engineering | Propping up the Leaning Tower of Pisa | ||||
Burn, John | 2012 | Genetics | Twins, Genes and Stem Cells:in search of self | ||||
Burnell, Jocelyn Bell | 2007 | Astronomy | What's going on in the Universe? | ||||
Burns, Harry | 2018 | Public Health | Wellbeing-What is it and what causes it? | ||||
Burton, Michael | 2008 | Cognitive Psychology | Face Recognition: surveillance, security, perception | ||||
Butt, John | 2005 | Music | Does Classical Music still exist? | ||||
Caddy,Brian | 2006 | Forensics | Forensic Science-Servant of the Legal Process | ||||
Cairncross, Frances | 2000 | Economics | The Death of Distance | ||||
Cairns Smith, Graham | 2004 | Medicine | Portrait of a truly Primitive Gene | ||||
Calder, Muffy | 2013 | Computing | Computational Thinking | ||||
Calderwood, Catherine | 2016 | Public Health | The Philosophy of Realistic Medicine | ||||
Calman, Kenneth | 1999/2015 | Public Health | Risk and its Communication/Happiness | ||||
Campbell, Steve | 2015 | Members' Talks | Photography | ||||
Campbell,Gordon | 2011 | Religion | The King James Bible-Language and Literature | ||||
Cannadine, David | 2012 | History | the British Monarchy becoming constitutional | ||||
Card,Nick | 2014 | Archaeology | Excavations at Neolithic site Brodgar Orkney | ||||
Chakrabati,Shami | 2012 | Human Rights | Common Values in the Human Rights Act | ||||
Cogdell, Richard | 2009 | Botany | What we can learn from Photosynthesis? | ||||
Cohen, Philp | 2013 | Pharmacology | New Drugs in the 21stC | ||||
Conway-Morris, Simon | 2007 | Evolution | How Evolution dances to the Song of Creation | ||||
Cowan, Ted | 2003 | History | 5/11 and the Fallout from 1603 | ||||
Craig, Carol | 2006 | Psychology | Negativity in Scotland's Culture and Consciousness | ||||
Crane, Tim | 2006 | Neuroscience | Can Science explain Consciousness? | ||||
Crawford, Dorothy | 2010 | Medicine General | Microbes and us | ||||
Crowe, Victoria | 2011 | Visual Arts | Inspiration and Process: the Creative Journey | ||||
Cubie, Andrew | 2004 | Education | Academic Rigour or Social Policy | ||||
Curtice, John | 2014 | Politics | Is Scotland set to Separate? | ||||
Cushieri, Alfred | 2010 | Medicine General | Operating from Images | ||||
Deary, Ian | 2014 | Aging | Heathy Cognitive Aging | ||||
Deech, Ruth | 2002 | Public Health | The Future of Fertility | ||||
Dominiczak, Anna | 2009 | Genetics/Cardiology | Genes, Proteins and Patients | ||||
Eaves, Laurence | 2015 | Physics | Graphene | ||||
Elliot, Alison | 2006 | Religion | Moderation in a World of Extremes | ||||
Esakovitz, Leonard | 2012 | Visual Arts | Why take Photographs? | ||||
Esakowitz, Leonard | 2012 | Members' Talks | Why take photographs? | ||||
Evans, Martin | 2009 | Medicine General | Mice, Men and Medicine | ||||
Ewing, Winifred | 1999 | Politics | A Suitable Job for a Woman | ||||
Fells, Ian | 2002 | Energy | The Future of Renewable Energy | ||||
Ferguson ,Niall | 2010 | History | The 1970s in Historical Perspective | ||||
Finkel, Irving | 2016 | Ancient History | The Ark before Noah | ||||
Foster, Russell | 2016 | Neuroscience | A New Understanding of the Eye | ||||
Fraser, Mary | 2016 | Members' Talks | Controversies over the Great War Separation Allowance: Views of the Police | ||||
Frith, Chris | 2011 | Psychology | What is Consciousness for? | ||||
Fry, Michael | 2007 | History | State of the Union: how 1707 led to 2007 | ||||
Fyfe, Maria | 2016 | Members' Talks | Mary Barbour | ||||
Galbraith, Roderick | 2001 | Aeronautics | Two Centuries of Flight | ||||
Gallagher, Jamie | 2014 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Indestructible Energy | ||||
Garrod, Simon | 2009 | Psychology | The New Science of Social Interaction | ||||
Gilmore,Ian | 2015 | Addiction | Alcohol:Coping with our Favourite drug | ||||
Glover, Anne | 2010 | Global Warming | Is Manmade Climate Change our Greatest Challenge? | ||||
Gorman. Daniel | 2014 | Members' Talks | James Clerk Maxwell | ||||
Grady, Monica | 2017 | Cosmology | Landing on a Comet | ||||
Graham, Elizabeth | 2012 | Archaeology | The Maya: their Calendar and Apocalypse to come | ||||
Grant, Robert | 2000 | Literature | Fiction and Meaning | ||||
Gray, Muir | 2014 | Public Health | The Third Healthcare Revolution | ||||
Grayling, A.C. | 2007 | Philosophy | Defending the Enlightenment | ||||
Greenan, Lily | 2016 | Women's Rights | Violence against Women in Scotland | ||||
Greenfield, Susan | 2000 | Neuroscience | The Private Life of the Brain | ||||
Greig, David | 2014 | Theatre | Theatre and Anthropology | ||||
Haldane, John | 1999 | Philosophy | Philosophy in this Century and the Last | ||||
Hall, Wendy | 2008 | Computing | Towards a Science of the World Wide Web | ||||
Hampton,Kay | 2003 | Public Health | A Fairer Future | ||||
Hanlon, Philip | 2007 | Public Health | Threats to Public Health in the 21st Century | ||||
Haugh, Joanne | 2016 | Global Warming | Climate Change | ||||
Hellawell, Keith | 2004 | Addiction | Drugs in Society | ||||
Hendry, Martin | 2009 | Physics | Cosmology:Why are we here? | ||||
Hennessey, Peter | 2018 | Politics, History | Writing the History of One's own Time | ||||
Hobbs, Angela | 2015 | Philosophy | Philosophy and the Good Life | ||||
Holloway, James | 2013 | Visual Arts | Portrait of a Nation: Scotland's Portrait Gallery | ||||
Holloway, Richard | 2001 | Religion ,Philosophy | The Wound of Religion | ||||
Hough, Jim | 2003 | Physics | Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe | ||||
Humes, Walter | 2009 | Education | Education, Citizenship and Democracy | ||||
Hutton, Will | 2018 | Public Affairs | The Enlightenment under Siege | ||||
Ingold, Tim | 2018 | Sociology | On Building a University for the Common Good | ||||
Inns, Tom | 2016 | Design, Education | Design Thinking in 21st Century | ||||
Ion, Sue | 2011 | Energy | 21stC Energy: Challenges and Food for Thought | ||||
Jaspars, Marcel | 2016 | Pharmacology | Extreme Drug Discovery | ||||
Jebb, Susan | 2017 | Nutrition | Improving the Nation's Diet | ||||
Jeffrey, Kate | 2018 | Neuroscience | Illuminating Memory: optogenetics and the new science of the mind | ||||
Jeffreys, Alec | 2008 | Forensics | DNA Fingerprinting and Beyond | ||||
Jones, Steve | 2009 | Evolution | Why Darwin was right and the Creationists are wrong | ||||
Kennedy, Dermot | 2013 | Members' Talks | Lister, Glasgow and antisepsis: confluences that changed the world | ||||
Kirkwood, Tom | 2016 | Aging | What Price Immortality? | ||||
Langair, Malcolm | 2000 | Particle Physics | Maxwell, Planck and the discovery of Quanta | ||||
Law, Stephen | 2007 | Psychology | The War for Children's Minds | ||||
Leask, Nigel | 2017 | Literature | Thomas Pennants Scottish Tours 1760-72 | ||||
Leather, Suzi | 2005 | Ethics | Test Tube Babies and Embryo Research | ||||
Lebrecht,Norman, | 2001 | Music | The Meaning of Mahler | ||||
Little, Alan | 2013 | World Affairs | Europe in an Age of Fear | ||||
Long, Philip | 2014 | Visual Arts | V &A Dundee | ||||
Lorimer, David | 2007 | Philosophy | The Frontiers of Science. Consciousness and Spirituality | ||||
Macdonald, Finlay | 2003 | Religion | The Moderator's Tale | ||||
Macdonald, Jim | 2013 | Ecology | Low Carbon Living | ||||
Macdonald, Murdo | 2008 | Visual Arts | Scotland's Art From Prehistory to the Present | ||||
Macdonald.Ken | 2017 | Law | Freedom in a dangerous World | ||||
Macgregor, Jimmie | 2000 | Entertainment | An Arctic Journey | ||||
MacMillan, Duncan | 2001 | Art/Philosophy | Two Centuries of Art and Philosophy in Scotland | ||||
MacMillan, James | 2005 | Music | Music: the most spiritual of the Arts | ||||
Macniven, Duncan | 2013 | History | Scotland's People--1855-2011 | ||||
MacSween,Roderick | 2003/2010 | General Medicine | The Future of Medical Care | Lister | |||
Manning, Aubrey | 2007 | Zoology | The Animals and Ourselves | ||||
Maslen,Rob | 2011 | Literature | Fantasy from The Front: Mervyn Peake | ||||
Mavor, Ronald | 2000 | Arts General | Time and the Arts | ||||
Maxwell, Jeff | 2005 | GM crops | Old Crops: Parameters of Acceptance and Rejection | ||||
McAnemey, Billy | 2006 | Geography | Africa: What does the Future hold? | ||||
McCluskey, Karen | 2014 | Psychology/Public Health | Medics against Violence | ||||
McCluskey, Lord | 2005 | Law | Whose Law? Religious and Legal Rights | ||||
McColl, Jim | 2017 | Business | Renewal and Regeneration of Businesses | ||||
McConnell, Bridget | 2002 | Arts Administration | Scotland's Cultural Future | ||||
McConnell, Jack | 2010 | Politics | Impact of Devolution on Scotland's Place in the World | ||||
McCulloch, Diarmaid | 2017 | Religion/History | The Reformation Half a Millennium Later | ||||
McDonald, Jan | 2010 | Theatre History | Women Performers in 19thC British Theatre | ||||
McDonald, Sheena | 2006 | Media | Sack the Clown; Governance, Media and the Law | ||||
McDonald, Stuart | 2011 | History | Procurement of Cadavers by Anatomists In 19thC | ||||
McFadden, Jean | 2016 | Glasgow Local Govt | Glasgow's Miles Better? A personal view | ||||
McGrath, Alistair | 2006 | Religion | The Twilight of Atheism? | ||||
McInnes ,Colin | 2008/2015 | Engineering | Engineering, Energy and the Environment/Energy Transmissions-past and Present | ||||
McKeganey, Neil | 2008 | Addiction | Welcome to Scotland, Drug Capital of Europe | ||||
McKellar, Quintin | 2003 | Ethics | The Future of Animal Welfare | ||||
McKinnon, Donald | 2000 | World Affairs | Forth and Clyde Canal--A Nation Divided | ||||
McKinnon, Jim | 2010 | Geography | From Skara Brae to sustainable Communities | ||||
McLean, Colin | 2006 | Economics | The Strange Behaviour of Investors | ||||
McLennan, Andrew | 2009 | Sociology | Inside Barlinnie: the first 24 Hours | ||||
McMillan, Nigel | 2003 | Diagnostics | The latest Developments in Medical Scanning | ||||
Menzies, Kirsty | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow | ||||
Midgley, Mary | 2004 | Philosophy | Visions and Values: Western Global Ecology | ||||
Millar, Keith | 2018 | History | Franklin's Arctic Expedition 1845 | ||||
Mitchell, William | 2015 | Members' Talks | Making of the Baton for the Commonwealth Games | ||||
Mithen, Steven | 2006 | Music | The Origins of Music and Language | ||||
Monaghan, Pat | 2013 | Members' Talks | An insight into the life and legacy of Alexander Wilson, Ornithologist | ||||
Morgan, Edwin | 2000 | Literature | Some Philosophical thoughts on Burns | ||||
Morris, Andrew | 2014 | Public Health | Health Science Research in Scotland | ||||
Morris, Jane | 2018 | Psychiatry | Psychotherapy in Scotland today | ||||
Neilson, June | 2012 | Members' Talks | The Antonine Wall: a wall too far? | ||||
Newlands, George | 2008 | Theology/Ethics | Faith, Hospitality and Human Rights | ||||
NicDaeid, Niamh | 2016 | Forensic Science | Does Forensic Science have a Future? | ||||
Nielsen, June | 2012 | History | The Antonine Wall: a Wall too far? | ||||
Nurse, Paul | 2018 | Genetics | Great Ideas in Biology | ||||
O'Donovan, Michael | 2019 | Genetics | Genes and Mental Illness | ||||
O'Hagan, Angela | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow | ||||
O'Neill, Mark | 2006 | Visual Arts | Kelvingrove in the 21st Century | ||||
O'Neill,Onora | 2012 | Philosophy | Do we need to rethink Press Freedom? | ||||
Ogg, Derek | 2004 | Law | Just Law | ||||
Oppenheimer, Peter | 2000 | Economics | What Price Progress? | ||||
Palmer,Tim | 2018 | Meteorology | Predicting the Weather | ||||
Patten, Chris | 2013 | World Affairs | Collapsing Certainties:changing World order | ||||
Paul, Douglas | 2019 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Nanotechnology | ||||
Pennington, Hugh | 2001 | Public Health | A Century of Food Poisoning | ||||
Peterson, John | 2000 | Politics/World Affairs | The US Presidential Election | ||||
Philbrick, Dick | 2012 | Business/ Economics | Employee Ownership | ||||
Philbrick, Dick | 2012 | Members' Talks | Employee ownership: path to prosperity and antidote to alienation? | ||||
Phipps, Alison | 2019 | World Affairs/Education | Refugee Integration Through Languages and the Arts | ||||
Pirmohamed, Munir | 2017 | Genetics | Personalised Medicine> Can NHS afford it? | ||||
Pollock, Allyson | 2008 | Public Health | The NHS and the Divergence of England and Scotland | ||||
Purser, John | 2011 | Musicology | Scotland's Landscape as Music | ||||
Radcliffe-Richards, Janet | 2002 | Women's Rights | The Future of Feminism | ||||
Rampton, Richard | 2001 | Law | Holocaust Denial: The Trial of the Century | ||||
Reedie, Craig | 2008 | Sports Administration | Civic Advantages of International Sporting Events | ||||
Rees, Martin | 2013 | Cosmology | Life in the Cosmos: Planets, Galaxies and the Universe | ||||
Reid, George | 2011 | Politics | Getting to 'YES' | ||||
Reid, Harry | 2010 | Religion | Why we should be grateful to Luther Calvin and Knox | ||||
Reid, Heather | 2003 | Meteorology | Weather Forecasting in the 21st Century | ||||
Reilly, David | 2006 | General Medicine | Healing in a Post-Industrial Age | ||||
Reilly, Patrick | 2007 | Literature | Decoding the Da Vinci Code | ||||
Richardson, Louise | 2011 | Terrorism/World Affairs | Understanding Terrorism | ||||
Rifkind, Malcolm, | 1999 | Politics | Blessed are the Peacemakers | ||||
Roaf, Sue | 2009 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Three degrees of climate change | ||||
Roberts, Carolyn | 2018 | Environment | Managing our Water Environment | ||||
Robertson, Ian | 2009 | Music | Operatic Medicine? Doctors in Opera | ||||
Roderick A McD Galbraith | 2011 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | What nature did and did not give aerospace | ||||
Rogers, Paul | 2017 | Politics/Public Affairs | Lost Cause? The War on Terror | ||||
Rowan, Sheila | 2016 | Cosmology | Gravitational Waves-a new Astronomy? | ||||
Sanderson, David | 2013 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | 2013 was the centenary of 'isotope' first appearing in print, in a letter from Glasgow's Frederick Soddy | ||||
Sanderson,David | 2013 | Chemistry | Science Festival Lecture | ||||
Sands, Philippe | 2019 | Law/World Affairs | Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity | ||||
Saxl, Otilla | 2003 | Technology | The Science of the Small: Nanotechnology | ||||
Scott, Sophie | 2016 | Neuroscience | The Science of Laughter | ||||
Seldon, Antony | 2017 | Education/Philosophy | Waste of 20thC Academic Philosophy | ||||
Sharkey, Noel | 2012 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Robots that can help us and hurt us | ||||
Sharp,Craig | 2004 | Veterinary Science | Animal Athletes: Feats of Animal Physiology | ||||
Shenkin, Alan | 2012 | Nutrition | Micronutrient Supplements and Disease | ||||
Sheridan, Tommy | 2002 | Politics | A Century of Socialism | ||||
Shipton, Zoe | 2015 | Geology/ Engineering | Ethics of Energy Supply in 21stC | (Fracking) | |||
Shirlaw, Derek | 2016 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Future fuels | ||||
Skeldon, Ken | 2007 | Cosmology | Debunking the Moon Hoax Theory | ||||
Smith, Catherine | 2009 | Literature | The Dignity of Man--Robert Burns | ||||
Smith, John | 2005 | Pharmacology | Scientific Changes for Natural Medicine | ||||
Smith, Martin | 2005 | Geography | Drifting Continents and the Asian Tsunami | ||||
Spector, Timothy | 2015 | Genetics | How you can change your Genes | ||||
Spurway, Neil | 2004 | Theology/Science | Science and Religion in the Third Millennium | ||||
Stamp, Gavin | 2002 | Visual Arts | Sir Giles Gilbert Scott: Architect of the Century | ||||
Stewart, Mhairi | 2015 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | What have bacteria done for us? | ||||
Stoddart, Sandy | 2005 | Sculpture | Costume, Drapery and the Decline of the Statue | ||||
Stott, David | 2014 | Members' Talks | Antikythera Mechanism | ||||
Strachan, Huw | 2015 | History | Centenary of WW1: Commemoration or Celebration? | ||||
Stringer, Chris | 2011 | Evolution | The Origin of our Species | ||||
Susskind, Richard | 2002/17 | Law/Computing Science | Clicks and Mortals/The Future of The Professions | ||||
Sutherland | 2003 | Philosophy | Ideologies and Values | ||||
Tallis,Raymond | 2010 | Visual Arts | Aping Mankind; Darwinism, yes : Darwinist, no | ||||
Taylor, Max | 2008 | Politics/World Affairs | How Terrorism can be understood and countered | ||||
Thomas, Sharon | 2018 | Glasgow Science Festival Talks | Visualising two of Glasgow's Marys: how women have shaped and are shaping the political and scientific life of Glasgow | ||||
Thorp, Nigel | 2001 | Visual Arts | The Ass and the Coxcomb--Whistler and Ruskin | ||||
Venables, Jean | 2011 | Global Warming | Water and Climate Change in Food Production | ||||
Vousden, Karen | 2014 | Oncology | Why is Cancer so rare? | ||||
Wallace, John | 2008 | Music | Music and Freedom | ||||
Warren, John | 2013 | Members' Talks | A light shining in dark places: the legacy of Thomas Aikenhead | ||||
Warwick,Kevin | 2006 | Technology | Hybrid Intelligence. Human and Machine Brains | ||||
Welsh, Louise | 2018 | Literature | Dystopia And Nostalgia in Apocalypse Fiction | ||||
Williams, Shirley | 2008 | Politics/World Affairs | Politics and Principle | ||||
Wilmut, Ian | 2004 | Cloning | The Future of Cloning | ||||
Wilson, Chick | 2011 | Chemistry | Mysterious Case of Misbehaving Molecules | ||||
Wilson, David | 2014 | World Affairs | China Awakening | ||||
Wilson, Jim | 2012 | Genetics | Scotland's DNA | ||||
Winder, Simon | 2011 | History | Germanic Tribes in 16thC Europe | ||||
Winetrobe, Barry | 2003 | Politics/World Affairs | The Evolution of Devolution | ||||
Winfield, Alan | 2018 | Robotics/Ethics | The Thinking Robot | ||||
Withers, Charles | 2013 | Geography | Scotland's Cartographic History | ||||
Wolpert, Louis | 2009 | Religion | Belief and the Evolution of Religion | ||||
Yellowlees, Lesley | 2015 | Women in Science | Women in Science |